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Telorand

@ Telorand @reddthat.com

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  • In Trump's mass deportation plan, the private prison industry sees a lucrative opportunity

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  • Based on their "assessment" of why they lost (specifically the politicians and DNC), I'm inclined to agree.

    I hope there's people on the left working to provide a populist candidate, because I haven't seen anything even remotely suggesting that's happening, and I don't see how we can hope to fix shit without it.

  • Tesla recalls Cybertrucks for faulty inverter, the 6th recall this year

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  • You get the thing that represents all cyber truck owners: a lollipop, or as it's also known—a "sucker."

  • In Trump's mass deportation plan, the private prison industry sees a lucrative opportunity

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  • Conservatives will have a majority in all branches. Repealing or revising constitutional amendments isn't out of the question, and there's a lot of damage they can do before midterms (if there's even a chance to vote in different people).

  • AI Generated Podcast on Human Philosophy

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  • I've "convinced" ChatGPT that it was both sentient and conscious in the span of about 10min, despite it having explicit checks in place to avoid those kinds of statements. It doesn't mean I was correct, just that it's a "dumb" computer that has no choice but to ultimately follow the logic presented in syllogisms.

    These things don''t know what they're saying; they're just putting coherent sentences together based on whatever algorithm guides that process. It's not intelligent in that it is doing something novel, it's just a decent facsimile to human information processing. It has no mechanism to determine the reasonability or consequences of what it generates.

  • AI Generated Podcast on Human Philosophy

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  • Okay. They fed Google's Notebook AI a book called "The History of Philosophy Encyclopedia" and got the LLM to write a podcast about it where it "thinks" humans are useless.

    Congratulations? Like, so what? It's not like it's a secret that its output depends on its input and training data. A "kill all humans" output is so common at this point, especially when you have a vested interest in trying to generate content, that it's banal.

    Color me unimpressed.

  • Script to install Brave and Vivaldi variants on Fedora Atomic

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  • Cool! Thanks for building this

  • [September 2024] JD Vance says US could drop support for NATO if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms

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  • Old article, btw. This is from Sept 2024. I get that's what he promised, and while I think he's a complete asshat, let's not discount that he and Trump said and will say anything to appear smart, capable, and as if they have a plan.

    Time will tell if this actually comes to pass, but I'm not actually going to hold my breath for this one.

  • A graphics card upgrade for a Ryzen 3600

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  • I have a 3060ti TUF, and I can say that it's a generally quiet card. It uses the same cooler from the 3070 and 3080 TUF models. It also has a switch for Quiet Mode and Performance Mode, so you can adjust cooling behavior that way, if needed.

    If you have it on the desk with you in performance mode, you can hear it when it's spinning up, but with normal headphone cans, I haven't found it to be particularly noticeable (unless your headphones are open-back). Quiet was a necessity for me, and this card has been great in that regard.

    Also, it plays Metro Exodus on max settings (@ 1080p, 240Hz) just fine. I don't have a 1440p setup myself, but when it first came out, it was considered to be the lowest entry point for 1440p, though I think people generally agree that going up to a 3070 or above is still preferable.

    Anyway, that's my two cents.

  • Opinion | Kamala Harris’ campaign didn’t ignore working class voters

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  • Her messaging still sucked.

    It was this. I was really engaged this season. I was fully on board to support her, but towards the end, I had to remind myself why I was excited. I was already going to support her, and I had forgotten what made me excited more than once.

    If that happened to me, a fervent supporter of what she represented, everybody else who was more lukewarm forgot completely. She was the candidate of change at the beginning and was Joe Biden 2.0 by the end.

    If Dems don't figure out how to capture excitement in their next attempts, if they can't energize the young who are so naive they follow Instagram influencers without a second thought, they're gonna keep losing to these terrible but charismatic Republicans.

  • Women report increased misogyny online post-election

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  • The US elects a misogynistic fascist, and misogynists feel emboldened. Who could have seen this coming? I'm as surprised as y'all are—which is to say: not at all.

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  • Unfortunately, this is the most accurate take, and I don't recognize this country anymore.

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  • You know, I'm okay if an indie dev wants to use an LLM to generate lore text to save time, effort, and/or sanity. I sometimes feel bad skipping that stuff, because I know a small team of people worked really hard to write multiple pages of a "book" in some hard-to-reach corner of their game.

    On the other hand, these giant corpos have the resources to pay for writers and artists, and I think they have an ethical duty to society to provide jobs.

    I'm not sure how you'd solve the problem of big corpos becoming cheap content farms while avoiding harming the people who use these tools to make something rich and beautiful, but I have to believe there's a way to thread that needle.

  • Laptop, smartphone, and game console prices could soar after the election

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  • Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

    Plus, presidents regularly create carve-out exceptions to tariffs, anyway. This is likely overblown fearmongering.

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  • Not in particular, but at least I could ostensibly set up a filter (or automod) that hid or removed low-quality comments like that. Removing downvotes is kinda the same effect.

    I'm not saying voting should go away entirely. This instance still has upvotes, after all, but Lemmy will just turn into the cynical, pessimistic, self-fallating shithole that Reddit has become if we don't do anything differently as a community.

    (And yes, it was just an open invitation—a reminder, if you will, that The Fediverse is a cool place where you have choices regarding how you experience it.)

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  • This instance actually drops downvotes before they hit the database, so unless another instance tracks users on different instances, they simply disappear for people on this instance.

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  • Because downvotes are lazy commentary. I'd rather judge for myself what constitutes a bad take and use words to encourage or debate. I don't need a bunch of angry keyboard warriors poisoning the discourse with voluntary polling.

    Plus, seeing a bunch of negative numbers doesn't make anyone feel good. I would rather Lemmy be a better place than Reddit.

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  • Kind of ironic, that. I do not apologize. 😆

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  • Join my instance, and you'll never see another downvote again.

  • KDE's New Distro: Btrfs-Based, Immutable Linux OS, with Flatpak and Snap

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  • I have. I have it on a laptop and will probably put it on my desktop (waffling between Bazzite and Arch). It's great, and it's one of the easiest setups I've had to get going with gaming. I recommend joining their Discord, too.

    The only thing that is currently a problem, that may be a non-issue when bootc has a full release, is installing certain VPN clients. If it exists as a flatpak, RPM, or in fedora repos, should be fine. If it installs by copying various files around and making system changes on demand at runtime (like Private Internet Access), doesn't currently work.